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Media, Culture and Environment (97 Edition)
by Alison Anderson  Publisher Comments Are you getting the real news on environmental issues? Or are the reports you are hearing slanted to meet the special interests of the reporters? The government? A lobbying group? How are our views on the Torrey Canyon oil spill, the demise of Brazilian...
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Community : Pursuing Dream, Living Reality (03 Edition)
by Suzanne Keller Synopsis This book tells the story of how a human community comes to be and how aspirations for the good life confront the dilemmas and detours of real life. Suzanne Keller combines penetrating analysis of classic ideas about community with a remarkable and...
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Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America
by Audrey (edt) Singer Book News Annotation Singer (Brookings Institution), Hardwick (U. of Oregon) and Brettell (Southern Methodist U.) have edited this collection of case studies that focus on modern gateways for immigrants in the 21st century, and how these new arrivals become integrated...
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Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution
by Mark Juergensmeyer Synopsis Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict---at home or in business; in local, national, or international...
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The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life
by Eviatar Zerubavel Publisher Comments The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide-is no...
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The Italians: A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals
by Luigi Barzini Publisher Comments In this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great qualities and its imperfections. Barzini is...
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The Plantation Mistress
by Catherine Clinton Publisher Comments This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of...
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Repeating Island : the Carribean and the Post Modern Perspective (2ND 96 Edition)
by Antonio Benitez-rojo Publisher Comments In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs...
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Opium : Portrait of the Heavenly Demon (04 Edition)
by Barbara Hodgson Publisher Comments Opium was first used in a surprising venue — religious ceremonies — but soon passed into common usage as a cure for various ailments during Victorian times; a resonant symbol of the romantic, dissolute East; and an inducer of fever dreams and...
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Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (UK Edition)
by Helena Norberg-hodge Synopsis Ladakh, a beautiful desert land up in the Western Himalayas, has few resources and an extreme climate, but for over 1000 years it has been home to a thriving culture. Then came "development". This book explores the whole notion of progress and the root...
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Exploring Social Life : Readings To Accompany Essentials of Sociology (6TH 06 - Old Edition)
by James M. Henslin Synopsis 'This brief and economical reader, edited by James M. Henslin, is specifically designed to be used as a companion to \"Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, Sixth Edition.\" There is one reading per text chapter, including a selection to...
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Our Common Humanity in the Information Age
by Aliye Pekin (edt) Celik Book News Annotation Contributors from governments, corporations, non-government organizations, and academia describe how information and communications technology is compatible with freedom and development, respect for nature and sustainable development, equality and...
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Rationalizing Culture
by Georgina Born Synopsis "Shows what can be learned from an in-depth study of a very remarkable cultural institution."--Paul Rabinow, author of "Interpretive Social Science "The finest application yet made of critical theory to contemporary music. . . . It would be hard to...
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
by Christopher Cooper Publisher Comments Based on exclusive interviews, the inside story of how America’s emergency response system failed and how it remains dangerously broken When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on the morning of August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were...
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Wasted Lives (04 Edition)
by Zygmunt Bauman Publisher Comments This book examines the production of "human waste" - or more precisely, wasted lives, the "superfluous" population of migrants, refugees, and other outcasts - as an inevitable outcome of modernization....
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Essay on Principles of Population (2ND 04 Edition)
by Thomas Robert Malthus Synopsis "An Essay on the Principle of Population" was first published in 1798. This edition contains the original text, along with the author's (1803) revisions. Background and source materials include such writers as David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill and...
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The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret
by Michael Zweig 
Synopsis The United States is not a middle class society. Michael Zweig shows that the majority of Americans are actually working class and argues that recognizing this fact is essential if that majority is to achieve political influence and social strength...
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Ruminations of a Gadfly: Persons, Places, Perceptions
by Deena Khatkhate Synopsis Essays exploring societal changes in India and abroad--such as the inherent jealousy of Indians in the United States and the glue of anticommunism that used to bind the Western world--through the eyes of an Indian emigrant are presented in this...
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Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty
by Georges Dumezil Publisher Comments Georges Dumandeacute;zil, founder of the new comparative mythology, discovered that all Indo-European religions are articulated according to three hierarchical functions: sacred sovereignty, force, and fecundity. In Mitra-Varuna he develops this general...
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My Brother
by Jamaica Kincaid Publisher Comments Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother Devon Drew's life is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's...
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